People do good because they are
human,
not because they are religious!

Do not give God any credit for the good they do, they did it!

Being inspired by the "enlightenment" of others?

The world is full of different and conflicting religious or spiritual
testimonies. You have people who claim to have had experiences of God as
Muslims understand him and we have the apostles who claimed to see Jesus
appearing to them risen from the dead to name a couple of examples. But
one thing for sure these experiences were not knowledge. Each religion
reports religious or spiritual experience that contradicts the others.

The title Buddha means enlightened one. The Buddha who formed Buddhism
stated that enlightenment was an experience that ended the power to
suffer. He didn't say any more than that. He said we must become Buddhas
ourselves and then we will learn exactly what enlightenment is.

Your thoughts can hurt you. They cause desires that hurt you. If you are
enlightened, you realise that you are not your thoughts. You can still
exist if you have no thoughts. Discovering this by experience puts your
awareness beyond the power of thought to inflict suffering.

Your mind pretends that it works to help you overcome suffering. It does
not. It fights it and this fighting is itself painful.

All thoughts hurt in some way.

Buddhism asks you not to stop thinking but to have a sense that your
thoughts will not control you and hurt you.

The Buddha is only the best known Buddha and there are possibly
countless Buddhas. They all claimed knowledge that liberated them from
suffering, evil and fear and changed their minds and delivered them from
all forms of psychological danger. If you want to believe in something,
it is best to believe those who claim to know than those who merely
believe. And especially when the knowers tell you that you can verify
the knowledge for yourself by having the same experience. Even if the
apostles saw Jesus we must remember that they only believed they saw
him. They never claimed to know it.

The Buddhas have enlightened themselves by direct experience. They
enlighten us indirectly for they give us faith and assurance that there
is no bad that cannot be overcome. None. They had an experience they
would not lie about for they were unworldly people with intense
compassion for others. They did not glorify themselves by teaching that
they had an experience. They taught that the experience happens and
nobody can take credit for making it happen.

Buddhism is vastly superior to any other system of self-help or
religion.